Bibliograph

Saving Mr. Banks, director, John Lee Hancock

Type

Label

Saving Mr. Banks, director, John Lee Hancock

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

Rating: PG-13; for thematic elements including some unsettling images

Main title

Saving Mr. Banks

Oclc number

869899477

Responsibility statement

director, John Lee Hancock

Runtime

125

Summary

When P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood in 1961 to finally discuss Walt Disney's desire to bring her beloved character, Mary Poppins to the motion picture screen (a quest he began in the 1940s as a promise to his two daughters), Disney meets a prim, uncompromising sexagenarian not only suspect of the impresario's concept for the film, but a woman struggling with her own past. During her stay in California, Travers' reflects back on her difficult childhood in 1906 Australia

Technique

live action

Contributor